Apparently the neighbours can be a bit precious about car spaces, so I've parked our car on the verge with a note on the dash explaining our status and advising we'd be gone in a couple of days. Just realised that except for the West Australians, most may be asking on the verge of what? Verge in WA is the commonly used synonym for sidewalk which is not to be confused with footpath.
We have been made to feel very welcome here and it is certainly a long way from any current fire activity. As chance would have it, Cait's neighbours Cath, Jamie and kids, just a couple of doors down in Nth Warrandyte have also temporarily relocated to Fitzroy. We had a very enjoyable if extremely noisy dinner at a local Vietnamese restaurant.
The fire weather today started off a lot cooler than the anticipated maximum of 30+ but as Russell Rees, CFA head honcho which means I can't remember whether he's the chief commissioner or something else, said with the fuel as dry as it is that temperature is largely irrelevant and the forecast wind would be the major problem. Hopefully - I haven't seen or heard the news since about 17:00 - the reasonably large dump of rain and wind direction change was positive and did not cause any breakouts.
Have spent a reasonable proportion of today not dealing with bureaucracy because. .."the very helpful council people", according to my neighbour Stella weren't where she said they'd be. In fact the local St Andrews Relief Centre was closed for the day. This information after I'd already dropped into the Diamond Creek RC and been told that the Council team had left yesterday and probably weren't coming back, made me glad that I'd also needed to collect the mail.
Decided that I'd call into the Shire Offices and see what could be achieved - it was a reasonably positive outcome but because it's just ticked over into Wednesday and I need some sleep, the telling will have to wait until later in the morning - Q
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